Document Type
Interview
Abstract
[Introductory note]
In December, 2009, Roderick Coover invited literary scholars Lance Newman and Larry McCaffery and art historian Hikmet Loe to explore the question of how desert ecologies are shaped through creative expression and actions. Oriented around the works of writer Edward Abbey and Roderick Coover's Canyonlands project, the conversation concerns how experiences in and of the desert are conveyed through expressive forms. Making comparisons with artist Robert Smithson among others, they consider how Edward Abbey engaged questions of ecology and intervention through creative expression. This is a segment of that conversation.
Repository Citation
Coover, Roderick, Hikmet Loe, Larry McCaffery, and Lance Newman. "Desert Interventions." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1–8. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss3/8